Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff

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Drawing on ethnography, this paper conceptualizes invisible mobilities by exploring the linkages between mobility, invisibility and hotel and residence based sex work in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Since both are illegal in Bangladesh, hotel and residence based sex workers (HRSWs) become targets of the different laws and sex work related social stigma. We s...

Community Integration program for sexual minorities. Stakeholders are those nonheterosexual individuals who experience psychological distress when confronted by social prejudice and nonacceptance.

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Contextualizing "rights" , "sexuality" in Dhaka (Bangladesh). PP presented during the 70th Annual National Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS) Session Theme: The Cultural Shaping of Health

Most Indian ‘high-skilled’ migrants in the Netherlands are male and single. If married, they generally bring their wives as ‘dependents’ and any skills these ‘trailing spouses’ may have remain unregistered. Although their legal status includes a work-visa, no special policies exist that integrate these women into the Dutch economy/society. Conseque...

Published in the Souvenir of JASCON 2016 . Theme: Living with Mental Illness by CIP Kanke

Tobacco varieties emerge as a result of technological manipulation (during seed production, cultivation, curing and manufacturing processes), socio-cultural preferences, political change as well as changing market demand and supply.1 This is how flue-cured yellowish tobacco foliage in the US was exported throughout the world from its original locat...

This article explores the way in which one of the largest semi-autonomous states in India, the state of Jharkhand, is developing policies that target the youth. It also looks at ways in which it is providing room for youths to participate in processes of decision making. Studying the state government's position, ideology and praxis in this regard d...

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This article relates the Indian Muslim diaspora to the events of 1947, when British India was partitioned. It is argued that although the government of India has tried to woo people of Indian origin, it is interested only in Hindus, while reterritorializing Muslims to Pakistan. It is also argued that, as a consequence, Muslims of Indian origin in S...

This paper captures the aesthetics of migration which encompasses destruction as well regeneration of identities. We use the writings of an indentured labourer in Surinam, Munshi Rahman Khan (1874-1972), and apply the concept of human security in order to understand the impact of migration on communal identification. We show that the psychological...

div> Global Indian Diasporas discusses the relationship between South Asian emigrants and their homeland, the reproduction of Indian culture abroad, and the role of the Indian state in reconnecting emigrants to India. Focusing on the limits of the diaspora concept, rather than its possibilities, this volume presents new historical and anthropologic...

The authors present a case study of Indian nationalists who drew from a discourse on 'exploited overseas Indian migrants' to serve their own political interests. At the same time, overseas British Indians, in this case in Surinam, advocated the continuation of transnational relations between (British) India and Surinam in order to strengthen the po...

This article invites a rethinking of the relation between homeland, diaspora and religion. We reflect on Muslims of Indian origin whose ancestors left British India long before 1947, when the country was partitioned and the new nations of Pakistan and India were established. The article interrogates the understanding of the Indian diaspora with rel...

This article deals with two sets of memories of the Partition of British India in 1947. The first is defined as "Partition memory"; the second set consists of the memories of Muslims who reside today in the state of Jharkhand, India. The author shows that the "enactment" of Partition memory -- at different times, in different places and ways, and w...

This is an article published in the Indian Journal of Secularism Mumbai published by the Centre for Study of Society and Secularism

This article describes some of the aspects that growing up entails for young men in Ranchi, Jharkhand, who feel that they are more privileged than girls in many respects. Nevertheless, they experience extreme stress, confusion, anger or sadness as they cannot always cope with the expectation of having to restrict themselves to masculine scripts. At...

This paper reviews India's interface with its diaspora from the early years of the last century till September 2000 when the government adopted a new policy framework seeking stronger ties between the Indian diaspora and India. The earlier policy of 'studied indifference' has been gradually abandoned; instead the government has encouraged the const...

This is an article in South Asian Refugee Watch published Centre for Alternatives Dhaka. Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Colombo, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Nepal Water Conservation Foundation, Kathmandu; Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad and Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo

This is an article in The Journal in a special Issue on Dealing with Depression. This Journal is published by Psychological Foundations (PFTJ) New Delhi. Article is an offshoot of research that was part of an integrated program on globalisation, sponsored by WOTRO, the Netherlands (1995-1999).